Lot
1892

A FINE AND RARE SMALL RU-TYPE VASE

Price realisedHKD 475,000

EstimateHKD 250,000 - HKD 300,000

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A FINE AND RARE SMALL RU-TYPE VASE
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The compressed globular body potted with straight sides and a raised rib below the angled shoulder, surmounted by a tall neck flanked by a pair of zoomorphic handles, rising to a cup-shaped mouth, covered overall with a pale blue glaze of even tone
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, box

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Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 12 June 2003, lot 180.

Compare the present lot with three other vases of identical design sold at auction. The first sold at Sotheby's New York, 1 June 1988, lot 158; the second at Sotheby's London, 8 June 1993, lot 109; and a third at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 697.

See a larger Qianlong-marked vase (27 cm. high) of this form in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayres, The Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, p. 171, no. 275; and a larger Yongzheng example covered in flambe glaze in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1970, no. 20.